The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a
settlement with six high technology companies — Adobe Systems
Inc., Apple Inc., Google Inc., Intel Corp., Intuit Inc. and Pixar
— that prevents them from entering into no solicitation
agreements for employees. The department said that the
agreements eliminated a significant form of competition to attract
highly skilled employees, and overall diminished competition to
the detriment of affected employees who were likely deprived of
competitively important information and access to better job
opportunities.